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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
THE LAWS DELAY.

The Supreme Court of Kentucky has
brought upon itself much censure by re-
fusing to advance the appeal of the MUIR
derer Patterson, and adjourning. Because
of the adjournment Patterson's death
sentence can not be carried into
effect until next fall. Patter-
son, it will be remembered, was
one of the two negroes who mAltreated
Jennie Bowman, the domestic who come
upon them when about to rob her en-
plover's house. Her death ensued, and a
mob attempted to break into the Louis
vile jail to lynch the villains.
They were adjudged guilty of murder
by as good jury as could be found
among the responsible citizens of Louis
vile. The trial and conviction of the men
was immediate, and it was expected that
they would be hung in few days, but
Patterson appealed, and now that the Su-
preme Court has adjourned after declining
to advance his appeal on its
docket, his execution is indefinitely
postponed. For this singular procedure
the court is receiving the most fervid de.
nunciations from the press and people of
the State, the Courier-J Journal leading of
with charge that the court has encour-
aged lawlessness by so doing. We do
not believe that the Supreme Court
of Indiana has ever shown such
Misrepresentation of its duty,
Such Indifference on the part of court is
certainly opposed to the preservation of
public order. Punishment for crime should
be swift, and it should occur while the
crime is fresh in the public mind. Other
wise it fails of effect. Criminals are to be
punished not only because they deserve to
be, but in order that their punishment may
serve to deter other persons from commit
ting crime. 1t is meant to be a two-fold
operation. But when the infiction of the
penalty is delayed until the people have
forgotten the crime-and in these busy
days such things are very quickly forgot
ten by the people-the effect of the punish
the special business of the criminal lawyer,
and when he has an indolent court to deal
with he generally succeeds, often to the
salvation of his client. The fact is, the
public is really more interested in securing
swift retribution than in the mere physical
suffering of the criminal himself. 1t is
the example that benefits the pub
lie, not the agony of the
convicted. If Guiteau's execution
had been postponed until this day, the
land would have swarmed with murderous
cranks. 1t was because he was executed
promptly that the crime of assassination
did not become epidemic.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

THE Journal statea that because Secretary
of State Griffin did not obtain the State
Treasurer's report until recently he will
print it in the documentary journal of the
Legislature.
Will this monumental ass never learn
anything? What business of his would it
have been if the State Treasurer's books.
instead of being cents out of balance with
the State Auditors, had been 100000
cents out of balanee2 None whatever.
The Auditor is the States book
keeper, and it was to the Auditors books
that he should have gone for financial
statement, and net to the Treasurer's. The
Constitution orders that financial state
ment shall appear in the volume of the
acts which the Secretary of State is re-
quired to publish after each session of the
Legislature. With this mandate the Sec
rotary of State, out of his ignorance or
political knavery-there's no telling
which-did not comply. His publication
of the laws was accordingly invalid, as it
v as also disgraceful, because of the impu-
dence of the Secretary in inserting Fee
soliciting foot note, and failing to give the
proper date of the meeting of the General
Assembly. Governor Gray's proclamation
did not help matters. The Governor
had previously stated that he could not
proclaim the publication of the laws.
What led him TO change his mind we do
not know. And now comes the Secretary
and states that he will print the Treasur-
er's statement in the documentary journal.
This is confession of all that the Sentinel
has charged. 1t shows that this sprig from
the Republican kindergarten has realized
that he committed an objectionable
blunder, but he again reveals his ignorance
by attempting to make the State Treasurers
report in the documentary journal do for
an abstract of the Auditors financial state
ment in the acts.
Was there ever such laundering fool in
Office before? 1t is inconceivable. Does
Governor Gray approve of him
nowi II ever an officer deserved to be i'm
peached the present Secretary of State does
| His conduct Is wholly tndefensible. He
doubtless thinks that If ne should print 8
statement of the States financial condition
along with the report of the Fish Commits
sioner, it would satisfy the constitutions
requirement. And yet this small potato
has twenty months yet to servel We have
said that his conduct is indefensible. w
retTact the statement. He is entitled Il
plead the baby act.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
THE INDIANA SENTINEL WEDNESDAY JUNE IS 1887

INSISTED in republican form of govern
ment that the people can and will do no
wrong. Legislatures, State or municipal,
when approached by corporations or indi-
viduals seeking privileges from the people,
should at once put themselves IN the
attitude of the most jealous guar
dianship. If they must err, the error
must count on the side of the people, and
to the people must be given the benefit of
every doubt. II every Legislature during
the past third of century which has wit
messed the rise of corporate power in
America had appreciated the preciousness
of public franchises, the people would
be a great deal happier to-day. The
passage of the interstate commerce law
indicated that the people had begun to
assert their dignity. The reform inaugu-
rated will not go backward. The next
thing will be the passage of a law which
will stop pooling for the mere purpose
of preventing the supply of given article
Of natures resources from becoming cheap
to the enforced consumer.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
A SORRY OUTLOOK FOR

A SORRY OUTLOOK FOR CTORS.
The interstate commerce law went into
effect Just at the time when the theatrical
season was nearing its close. Few travel
ing organizations were seriously affected
by it; but with the opening of
the fall and winter season we
may expect to see new conditions
prevailing. Certainly, under the operation
of the law, only the strongest travelling
companies can survive, and many a thea
ter manager out OF New York will have to
face the problem whether to permit his
theater TO remain closed half the season for
the want of attainable attractions, or to Or
ganize stock company on the old-fashioned
plan. Actors, we should think would, ex-
cept the stars possibly. prefer return to
the old system, though we do not know
that the public would like it. For so long
a time have theater-goe been accustomed
to witness the performance of plays by
companies organized expressly to give
them, thereby assuring at least smoothness,
that they might not at first take kindly to
the local stock company as the support OF a
visiting star. 1t may be the actors them
selves prefer wearisome journeys to the
work of continual rehearsal. But what
ever the public or the players may prefer,
the fact is, the interstate commerce law
will throw many actors out OF employ
ment unless the managers organize local
stock companies. The larger cities will,
coure, have a plethora of attractions,
but the e-nishtstands' Will have
comparatively few visitors. Such, at least
is the present OUTLOOK. It may be that q
way can be found to obviate disturbance
of the present methods of theatre
cal business, but none has been found
thus far. Union Square in New York will,
this summer, be full of very anxious Tbes-
plans seeking engagements, and as con-
sequence salaries will surely diminish. 1t
is not a very roseate prospect from the
most favorable point of view
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
THE HAND OF FRATERNITY.


The fact that General Averill, a brave
soldier of the Union army. delivered the
address on the occasion of celebration by
the Confederate Memorial Association at
Staunton, w. Va, and the further fact that
he was accorded the most cordial wei
come, are evidences that are sincere in
their professions of a spirit of fraternity.
General Fitzhugh Lee, the famous Con-
federate, now Governor of Virginia,
took special pains. to do General Averill
honor. They had been classmates at West
Point, but had been directly opposed to
ore another in several battles of the late
war. Their coming together on this oc-
casion gave it q certain dramatic
interest, and the example the
two distinguished men set was
in the highest degree worthy the
emulation of their countrymen on both
sides of the ancient and nearly obliterated
line. Governor Lee himself had, during
recent visit to Minnesota, been the recipi-
emit Of attentions which he doubtless had
an IDEA of requiting in some measure by
his warm reception of General
Averill. 1t has often happened
since the war that the Southern
people have availed themselves of oppor-
tunities TO manifest generous hospitality
in doing honor to visiting ex-soldiers of the
Union Army. 1t has, however, oc-
CURED very rarely that ex-Confederate
soldiers have been invited to participate at
Northern celebrations similar to that just
held at Staunton, So far as the outward
show of feeling is concerned, the Southern
people might well say that their Northern
brethren cling more tenaciously to
their preiudices, for we do not recall
an instance where such men as
Johnston, the Lees, Hampton or Gordon
have been invited to assist in commemor-
ating the virtues of the Federal dead on
Decoration Day. This leads the philos-
opher to inquire whether the magnanimity
which marked the occasion of General
AverilPs appearance before the
Confederate Memorial Association might
not be due TO the fact that he was on
Southern ground. The true test of the
genuineness of this spirit of magnanImity
will not be made until a Confederate &C
cepts an invitation to enact General Aver
ill's role on Northern ground. Win the
invitation ever be extended? is the ques-
ton
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

Army row at st. Louis Department Com
mander Burke said: at Is an insult to
the Grand Army Of the Republic to say
thatIt can or would insult the President.
The Grand Army of the Republic not only
will not insult the President, but will not
permit anyone else to do it." The Grand
Army Of the Republic he said was not a
political organization. "Why2" he re-
marked, referring with smile to himself
"the department commander of this de-
partment is Democrat, and has been one
ali his life. The man who is now spoken
of as the one who will probably be the
next commander-in-chief is a Democrat.
speak of General Slocum. Many of the
men that are the hardest hitters in the
Grand Army, who have done the hardest
work and made the greatest sacrifices in be-
half of Union soldiers, their orphans, and
tn cir widows, are Democrats"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
Meaning of the G. A. Il. Row.
[ Washington special.


The Star says: There is a suspicious
coincidence between the uproar OF the
Presidents proposed visit to st. Louis dur
Ing the u. a. X. encampment next fall and
the preparation OF q new pauper pension
bill to be laid before that body. For sew
eral years certain members of the G. a. X.
have tried to commit the Grand Encamp-
ment to the support of a service pension
scheme, but have beeen choked Oft
has been uppermOst thus far in the
veterans organization has favored the
principle that the Government should be
generous towsrd those who fought in its
defense, and whose patriotism has put
them in need of help; but it has felt no
sympathy with the wholesale raid of the
claim agents upon the federal treasury.
Last year, before the Presidents policy in
general pension matters was thoroughly
understood. he received a most cordial in
vitation to San Francisco for encampment
week; and much regret was ex-
pressed, not only by the citizens
but by prominent delegates to the conven
lion, at bis declination. There may have
been then in the minds of some of the
pauper pension sgitstors a hope of being
able to commit him by indirection to a
course OF conduct in harmony with their
designs. This year they not only recog-
fear that his presence in st. Louis while
the encampment is in progress would have
q depressing effect on the plans they have
arranged for capturing it in the interest of
their new bill. Hence the excitement.
This is time when every comrsde who
has the real welfare of the Grand Army at
heart should exert himself to see that the
snti-pauperizing majority keep its grip we'll
fastened on the organization. The claim
spectators have their scouts out in force,
and if the good men relax their vigilance
the bad men will get control. 1t is
of trifiing consequence, comparatively,
whether the President spends encampment
week at st. Louis or in Washington, or on
Saranao Lake. But it is of vast Importance
whether the Grand Army maintains its po-
sition resolutely outside of partisan politics,
and aloof from every plot and project to de-
grade the independent spirit OF the soldiers
of the Union"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
A Good Thing In Lemonade,
lCnicago Tribune.l

"Thls lie lemonade, is il not2" inquired a
light haired gentleman blandly, as he
stepped up IN front OF stand on the cir
cos ground yesterday,
The proprietor replied that it was ice
cold lemonade, and generously threw in
the Information that the price was only
I've cents al glass.
"Tll take glass, il you please, " said the
stranger, and it was placed before him.
IF there is anything am fond of" he
continued with much afability, lit is good
Lemonade" and he drew lemon from one
Of his pockets, cut hole in il, and with
great deEberation squeezed the juice into
the glass. Then from another pocket he
took spoon and q small paper sack filled
with sugar, with which he proceeded to
sweeten the mixture. A crowd was gather
ing about him by this time, and the pro-
prietoz of the refreshment stand was be-
comiDg red and very moist.
"TN give you half dollar TO go away
from here" be said to the bland gentle
man anxiously.
my friend, - said the smiling customer,
slipping with evident satisfaction the bever
age he had mixed. cit affords me pleasure
to say that this is the best lemonade l ever
drank on q show-grouDd. Here is your
i've cents" And he finished the glass,
paid his money, and elbowed his way oui
through the crowd.
Half an hour later the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
broke uD in business and disguised in 9
pair of green goggles and false beard. wa:
doing the three-card monte act in seclud
ed place among the canvas wagons and
looking about searchingly for light-haired
and smiling stranger.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
"when sIy Dream oomssrrue ;,

After James Whitconb Riley.l
When my cream comes true, when my dream
comes true;
You can bet your sweet existence I know inst
what II do.
When my ship comes sailing into port as full as
she can hold
OF silks. ard laoes. jewels rare, and piles and
piles OF gold,
will follow her example, and win get myself
full" too,
In the sachsrlne hereaiter-when my dream
comes true.
When my dream comes true this shabby coat
viii be changed into broadcloth, and III have
dozen pair
OF the finest striped brooches that your eyes did
And every pocket in them win be filed with
sterling gold,
And III spend it ike a na6ob, and my girls,
Win say "He is bloOded: hes dandy''-whea
my dream comes tue.
When my dream comes true, when my dream
conss true.
I'll paint this town of carmine hue and leave
rot a streak of blue,
I'll drive the fastest horses aud own the finest
Yacht.
And the fellow who keeps up with me will find
Oh, III spend my money freely and be rich as
any Jew.
Aud ..buck the tiger in his den-when my
dream comes true.
When my dream comes true. fear III do such
Ny riches all will vanish. for wealth, It's said,
has wings;
And when at last Pm stranded on Adversely s
cold shore.
Say, viii cry and whimper and ask for just one
more
Such chance to use my riches to show what
can do?
Perhaps. But I won't spend them-tiu my
dream comes true.
W. W. BRoWN.
Philsdelphis, May u. 1887.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
HOWE erd ward Robbed Mrs. Grant.
New York Grapbiol


Most people have read that Ferdinand
Wards absorption of the assets of the
Grant family extended even to few hun
dred dollars worth of gold keepsake COINS
which the General had given to Mrs. Grant,
but the casual is not aware that the precise
circumstances under which these were
grabbed by the Unsuitable Ferdinand have
ever been narrated. 1t is the usage of large
corporations, whenever a meeting of di-
rectors is held, to present each director
with S. gold piece or Its equivalent in a
crisp new bill. General Grant was a di-
rector in several large concerns, and the
gold pieces he received were alwsys
given to his wife, who kept them
in a vase resting on a piece of
furniture in the parlor. One evening,
when Ward was visiting, somebody pro-
proposed game of penny ante for amuSe-
ment. 1t suited the mood OF the party. but
no counters could be found. I'VE shall
have to get buttons or coffee beans or some
thing else" suggested the General. Sad
denly somebody thought of the vase with
nearly a hundred So gold pieces in it.
Amid general laughter the contents were
emptied on the table, and the party laughed
errily at using solid gold counters in a
game for penny stakes. When the game
ceased Ward gathered the cleaning coins
toward him in a heap and exclaimed
what shame, Mrs. Grant, to have so
much good money lying idle Let me
have it and will double it for you" Re-
alizipg that her mode of keeping the
money was not the safest, Mrs. Grant ac-
qniesed-and that was the last she ever saw
of it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
Northwestern Crop Reports.

New YORK, June 13.--A Montreal special
says: "The Canadian Pacific Telegraph
Company has collected crop reports from
all points of the Northwest and Manitoba,
and with hardly single exception the
prospects are said to be very much better
than last year, and plentiful harvest is
expected. In Rosenfeldt and several other
places in the vicinity there had been no
rain since May 90, and the crops were very
backward on that account, but on Friday
night and Saturday thsre were heavy rain
storms all over the country, followed by
warm weather, and reports from all sources
yesterday were unanimous IN saying that
the crops were never better since the coun'
try was settled. Wheat in some places Is
seventeen inches high. Farmers aud busi
ness men never felt moro confident of q
good crop than az present"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
George Was Inside.
New Yszk Mail ana Express.E

New Yszk Mail ana Express.f
The SON of a well known New Yorker left
the city last summer and went to India to
mako his home with an uncle VINO had
grown itch in the Orient. Several months
ago the family received a letter from the
uncle saying that his nephew wss dead,
and that the body had been embalmed and
seat home by sailing ship. Last week
the vessel arrived here, and the young
raan's parents, attired in deep mourning,
went to receive the remains. A peculiarly
shaped box was delivered to them, and
was removed to their hone. When the
undertaken opened the chest to give the
parents a last look at the body it was found
to contain a large Bengal tiger. The sur
prised father at once cabled to his brother
in India:
"Some mistake. Georges body not AZ
rive. Coffin contained Bengal tiger"
Last night this answer was received:
mo mistake; George inside tiger"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

SOME enthusiastic friends of Mr.. Robert
Lincoln are urging his name for the next
presidency through a Chicago paper.
Among the points urged against John
Sherman, looking upon him as an antsgon-
ist of Lincoln Tor the nomination, are
that Sherman has not 1.-The sympathy OF
the people, as Lincoln has" and, 'besides,
we are not quite sure where we shall find
him on the silver question" It is point
TO inquire where Mr.. Lincoln stands on
the silver question; and, as to John Sher-
man, does any one know where he stands
on any question, beyond the fact that he is
simply the advocate of all the most dis
tasteful measures of extreme radical Re-
publicanism? Mr.. Sherman stands In with
Wall street on financial matters and with
the high protectionists on tariff theories
and practices.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

plaster sticks, and draws. and blisters. snd
burns, and e,SSs. Possibly General Car,na-
han derives consolation from the columns
OF the Journal, .snd banquets the Commit.
tee of One HunGSed. and invites the iudge
and Grand Jury 70 his house to dine ana
tea; perhaps he dos, but it is more likely
that he gets up on his hind legs and pours
cut lava tide OF great big cuss words
strongly impTegnated With sulphur. Any
way, the General has TO wear the pIaste
right on the place where he carries his Re
publican conscience.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
General Oarnaha1,s PIaster.

General James r. Carnahan, prominent
and distinguished Republican boss of Indi-
annapolis, returned from Washington, where
he had been a prominent figure IN the
great national drill, TO receive an indict-
ment plaster, prepared by Republican
Committee of One Hundred, a Republican
United States Judge and Republican
Grand Jury.
Tie General realizes that the plaster
stiDgs like mustard or Spanish dies. II
don't suit his Republican cuticle at all. II
blisters like ERE, and eats like vitriol. Bat
the General can't shake it of. II
e'icks. The General pleads innocence,
pleads duty, pleads honesty, pleads
that he suspected somebody. but the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

THAT curious functionary, the present
Secretary of State, row announces that
will print the State Treasurer's report in
the documentary journals Of the legislature.
By doing this ne does not excuse his fail
ure to comply with the mandate of the
Constitution as to the publication OF the
acts. By the proposed makeshift, Mr..
Griffin may satisfy the Governor, but he
will not satisfy the Constitution.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

The CUnard Steamship Company was
fined 81, 600 in Boston Wednesday TO
landing in that city recently an insane
person from Europe. The charge entered
was that of violating the statutes in regard
to tie landing at American ports of pass
engers who are in no condition to care for
themselves. The woman was considered
entirely unable to take care of herself, and
If allowed to remain she would become q
burden To the State
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

IF the Canadian secret circular to Repub-
llcan election officials was such a harmless
piece of paper as the Journal endeavors to
prove, why was it that one of those officials,
in his frantic efforts to carry out the in
structions of his chief, was forced to hide
TIE tally sheet upon his person, jump from
the window OF the polling-place and run
like a quarter horse to elude the Demo-
Gratis on the watch for Republican rascali-
ties